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The "Dutch eyeglass maker"
The first ever telescope was invented by Hans Lippeshey. It is said to be that the telescope was most likely invented many years prior to this, but, Lippeshey was the first person to patent this invention. When getting the invention patented, Lippeshey named the telescope the "Dutch eyeglass maker". The telescope had a one and a half inch lense and a concave eyepiece. -
Galileo's Telescope
Although Galileo is said to have invented the telescope, he was not the first. He followed in the steps of many of the other inventors in Europe. All of the telescopes up until this time could only magnify an object up to three times, but, Galileo invented a telescope that could magnify an object up to twenty times. This made it so that people could further study things such as the stars and moon. With the use of this telescope, Galileo helped prove that the planets revolve around the sun. -
Newtons First Reflecting Telescope
Newtons telescope was the first ever working reflecting telescope. Astronomers had struggled for years, wondering how to get the fuzzy colored images out of the plain glass lense put into the microscope. Newton finally thought, maybe we should take the lense out. He to the lense out of the microscope and replaced it with a rounded and polished mirror. Newton ended up fixing the issue of having the fuzzy colorful edges around the object seen, but, images still appeared a little fuzzy. -
Johannes Hevelius Telescope
Hevelius thoughts were that the longer the telescope the better you can see out of it. The normal telescope was at most, 4 feet long and by 1647, Hevelius had created a 12 foot telescope, but that wasn't good enough. He worked and worked until eventually he created a 150 foot telescope that was held up by a 90 foot pole. They telescope was surrounded by a wooden trough and ropes were used to move it. The telescope was not very sturdy and would shake at even the littlest bit of wind. -
Hadleys Reflector
John Hadley's goal was to make a telescope that got rid of the blurry images that showed up in all telescopes before his. To do this he had to shape the mirror in a more sharply rounded figure called a parabolic. The mirror in the telescope had a diameter of 6 inches and was a total of 6 feet long, yet it worked just as well as a 123 inch telescope. To make sure that people knew how he had created this mirror he documented almost his whole process for grinding and polishing mirrors. -
Sir William Herschel Telescope
Herschel was another man of his time that soon became obsessed with astronomy and the telescope itself. He ended up renting small telescopes to do some research and then wanted to see if he could rent out a larger one, to find out none existed. He then started learning the practices of the telescope and made many, slowly they were becoming larger and larger. He kept going until he made a 40 foot long telescope with a 48 inch mirror. Though this telescope was large it was harder to use. -
Lord Rosses Reflectors
The public ended up naming this telescope The Leviathan of Parsonstown because it was so large it reminded them of a giant sea monster. This telescope weighed in at a total of 4 tons and had a mirror with a 72 inch diameter. It was around 54 feet long and the telescope took a total of around three years to completely build. Because the telescope was so large it was not portable, but, it was hung up by to 50 foot chains on stone blocks. Just like most of the other large telescopes that were ma -
Yerkes Observatory Telescope
This telescope was the largest refracting telescope ever built, it was also known as the Yerkes Telescope. The creator of this telescope was a man by the name of Charles Tyson Yerkes, he origanally did not want make the telescope, but, liked the idea of his name being conected to something famous. Because of this he decided to make it his goal for this telescope to be the largest in the world. It ended up being 60 feet long with a 40 inch lense diameter and was built at lake geneva. -
The Hooker Telescope
This telescope got its name not from its inventor ( George Ellory Hale) but from the buisness man that gave him the 100 inch piece of glass that was used for this telescope. It was said many times that this telescope would never work out because when they got the piece of glass there were many air bubbles and crystalized pieces. This telescope was considered the largest in the world for a total of 75 years and is now located on Mount Wilson. -
The Hale Telescope
George Ellory Hale was getting old and was supposed to be retired, but, that didn't stop him. He wanted to make sure that all people could see the beautiful thing called space that he absolutely loved. This telescope was known to be the most effective telescope in the world until the year of 1993. This telescope has a 200 inch mirror and is 660 inches in length. This telescope is used every night to find astronomical information. -
The Large Binocular Telescope
This telescope saw first signs of light in 2005 and the first signs of so called binocular light in 2008. It is said that this telescope can see images up to ten times sharper than the average telescope and is the hopeful new key to the rest of the mysteries that the universe has not yet answered. It is located on Mt. Graham in southeastern Arizona. This telescope is known to be the next generation of large telescopes.
